Promoting the spirit of solidarity, gradually boosting the socio-economic development of Tuong Duong district

On the afternoon of May 17, Tuong Duong district held the 3rd Congress of Ethnic Minorities in 2019.

Attending the congress were comrade Luong Thanh Hai - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Head of the Provincial Ethnic Minorities Committee; leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors; leaders of districts with a large population of ethnic minorities; leaders of Son Ha district (Quang Ngai); leaders of Tuong Duong district and 150 delegates representing ethnic minorities in the area. Photo: Dao Tho

Progress in implementing Ethnic Policy

In recent years, Tuong Duong's socio-economy has developed quite well with an economic growth rate of 7.8% in the period 2014 - 2018 (average 2.34%/year), average income per capita of 27 million VND/year.

Delegates visit a photo exhibition on socio-economic achievements of Tuong Duong district. Photo: Dao Tho

The economic structure has shifted rapidly towards reducing the proportion of agriculture - forestry - fishery (from 36.3% in 2014 to 10.9% in 2018) and increasing the proportion of industry - construction (from 31.3% in 2014 to 69.5% in 2018), initially forming concentrated raw material areas, the rate of poor households has decreased from 45.39% (in 2014) to 30.48% (in 2018).

Leaders of the Ethnic Committee and Tuong Duong district exchanged with delegates on the sidelines of the Congress. Photo: Dao Tho

Cultural and social infrastructure has been invested in and developed, 18/18 communes and towns have cultural and information facilities, of which 4 communes have met the standards. The quality of education has been increasingly improved, the rate of junior high school graduates in the 2017-2018 school year reached 97.8%; the rate of high school graduates reached 98.86%, 26 schools have met national standards, 100% of communes and towns have spacious and solid medical stations, 15 communes have met the national criteria for health.

Van Temple Festival - Cua Rao (Tuong Duong) in 2019. Photo: Cong Kien

The work of building a team of ethnic minority cadres has always been given attention from the planning stage to training, fostering and deployment. The number of ethnic minority cadres and civil servants as of 2018 was more than 1,200 people, accounting for 54.94% of the total number of civil servants in the district...

Exploit potential and strengths appropriately

On that basis, Tuong Duong district sets out the general goal of ethnic work until 2025 as follows: rationally and effectively exploiting potentials and strengths to comprehensively develop politics, economy, culture, society and security - defense. Well implementing ethnic policies; paying attention to developing and nurturing human resources; taking care of building a team of ethnic minority cadres; preserving and promoting the cultural identity of ethnic groups.

Comrade Luong Thanh Hai - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Head of the Provincial Ethnic Minorities Committee requested the authorities at all levels, people and ethnic groups in Tuong Duong district to promote the spirit of solidarity and existing advantages to continue to boost socio-economic development. Photo: Dao Tho

From there, the target is to strive for a total production value of nearly 9,155 billion VND; average income per capita of 35-40 million VND/year; reduce the proportion of agriculture - forestry - fishery to 25%, increase the proportion of industry - construction to 28% and the proportion of services to 47%. At the same time, reduce the poverty rate to below 10%, strive for 100% of schools to meet national standards and 100% of communes to meet national standards on Cultural - Information - Sports institutions...

Leaders of the Provincial Ethnic Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements. Photo: Dao Tho

At the Congress, delegates discussed issues of promoting the building of great solidarity; educating cultural traditions in schools; promoting the role of village elders and prestigious people in the fight against illegal proselytizing; fighting against drug crimes; building models of economic development; caring for, protecting and developing forests...

On this occasion, 34 official delegates and 2 alternate delegates attended the 3rd Congress of Ethnic Minorities of Nghe An province. At the same time, 9 individuals were awarded the Medal for the Development of Ethnic Minorities by the Central Ethnic Committee; 2 groups and 15 individuals were awarded Certificates of Merit by the Provincial Ethnic Committee and 7 groups and 24 individuals were awarded Certificates of Merit by the District People's Committee for their outstanding achievements in implementing ethnic policies.

Tuong Duong district is located in the southwest of Nghe An province, with an area of ​​280,777.68 km2 (accounting for 17%), has 17 communes, 01 town with 154 villages, of which 4 are border communes and 1 international border gate in Tam Hop commune with 67.069 km of border adjacent to Laos. The whole district currently has 18,078 households (75,166 people), ethnic minorities account for 89.9%. Of which, Thai ethnic group accounts for 71%, Kho Mu 13.2%, Mong 3,626 4.8%, Tho (Tay Poong) 1.1% and O Du 0.47%. Photo: Google Maps